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An annotated edition of American author Mark Twain's 1889 social and technological satire in which Hank Morgan, a nineteenth-century American, is transported to sixth-century England. Also includes several of Dan Beard's original illustrations for the novel, as well as a scholarly introduction, a Twain chronology, and a selected bibliography.

In 1964, African-American author Max Reddick looks back as he dies of cancer, reflecting upon the racism he has faced all his life despite his talent, achievements, and even his marriage to a white woman, and his attempts to escape this identity as just a "black man" in Europe and Africa.

Contains twenty-five travel articles published in a variety of magazines, journals, newspapers, and Web sites, selected as the best of 2007 by editor Anthony Bourdain, host of the Travel Channel's culinary and cultural adventure program "Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations.".

Meet Hickey, an American school teacher in his late thirties, an American school teacher who burns his bridges with the school board and goes to Africa as an aid worker. Working for an agency in Nairobi, one of his jobs is to drive food and medical supplies to Southern Sudan to an aid station run by Ruth, a middle-aged woman, who acts as nurse, doctor, hospice worker, feeder of starving children, and witness. Ruth is gruff but efficient, and Hickey, who is usually drawn to youth and beauty, is struck by her devotion. Returning to Nairobi, he can$1 (Bt forget what he has seen. When the violence and chaos in the region increase to a fever pitch and aid workers are being slaughtered or evacuated, Hickey is asked to save Ruth overland by Jeep. What happens to them and the children that have joined their journey is the searing climax of this novel. Hoagland paints an unflinching portrait of a living hell at its worst, and yet amid that suffering there is hope in the form of humility, sacrifice, and life-affirming friendship.

Rosecrans Baldwin discusses the complications he had staying in Paris while working at an advertising agency.